Word: cal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife emerged from a movie theater. When the couple boarded a bus to go home, two agents in a rented car sent a message by walkie-talkie. As the Bouchikis got off the bus, a car approached. Out jumped a pair of men armed with silencer-equipped .22-cal. pistols. "No!" shouted Bouchiki. Without uttering a word, each gunman fired six shots. The Arab died before an ambulance arrived. His seven-month-pregnant wife collapsed in shock on the street...
Early has a smooth way with the familiar Southern surfaces. But his story of a boy's awakening lifts his novel above the ordinary Southern tale of lo cal "unforgettable" characters. Both young Egan's body and mind seem to bud together. Defining, then trying to name new experiences in his own way, lead to his first steps as a poet. Art, it ap pears, must provide him with the security and faith that an absent father-hero never did. It is a promising theme, particularly when suggested by the work of an author who left a religious...
Upset at the spectacle of the San Francisco Giants losing to the Houston Astros, Gerald Bishop, 42, of Redding, Calif., picked up a .30-cal. carbine last week and pumped 17 shots into his television set. Several of the shots went through the wall. A terrified neighbor called police, and they promptly arrived to arrest Bishop. Facing one year in jail for disturbing the peace, Bishop offered only the simplest explanation: "Didn't you ever want to shoot your TV?" Said a police spokesman: "Unusual, isn't it?" Perhaps the police in Redding do not watch much television...
...Brayton, the Crimson ace, has come through in every important game for Harvard this year. Brayton, who has allowed only a handful of earned runs in his entire collegiate career, is expected to get the call in the Crimson's opening game, most likely with defending national champion Southern Cal...
...what had promised to be one of the best duals of the meet, John Hencken of Southern Cal, an Olympic gold medal winner, easily beat rivals Brian Job of Stanford and Tom Bruce of UCLA in the finals of the 100-yd. breast. His winning time of 57.111 was just .3 off Job's American and NCAA record. Job, whose failure to make the U.S. Olympic squad in Chicago this summer was a big surprise, faded to fifth in the finals and just about put a finish to his swimming career...